Audiences will soon be able to watch an animated musical comedy featuring anthropomorphic sperm who sing a number entitled ‘In the Ball Sack’.
Yes, really – and it has a perfect rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics watching its first previews.
The quirky film, called – wait for it – Spermageddon – includes everything from awkward first-time sex and ‘boobies’ being grabbed to many, many puns and the exclamation ‘C**k help us!’ from the frantic sperm.
Directors Tommy Wirkola and Rasmus A. Sivertsen describe their animation as a ‘crude and heartwarming’ take on Disney blockbuster franchise Inside Out.
This is thanks to its dual storylines following nerdy teen Jens as he seeks to lose his virginity and also two of his named sperm from inside his testes – Simen and Cumilla (yup).
Although it’s not R-rated as the filmmakers wish to appeal to a tween and teen audience, they were inspired by the likes of the pretty adult Sausage Party and South Park.
The movie, which premiered at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, is set to be released in its native Norway in January 2025.
In a clip shared exclusively with Variety ahead of its first screening, Jens is shown embarking on his first sexual experiment with Lisa, which involves him being mesmerised by her chest as she removes her T-shirt, while his sperm inside rush to the ‘ejaculation ramp’ with alarms blaring.
When she asks for his help removing her bra, Jens then fumbles and manages to whip himself in the eye violently with the hook on its backstrap – in his awed rush to touch ‘real boobies’.
Wirkola told the publication that he was sometimes in disbelief that they managed to actually get Spermageddon pitched and sold.
‘When we finally got to make it, there were times when I was looking at the screen, thinking: “How the hell did we get this movie made?!”’
Giving the simple answer, he added: ‘We made it in Europe – that’s how. Years ago, I pitched it in Hollywood and it never went anywhere. When it comes to sex, it’s more delicate over there.’
Both filmmakers insist that Spermageddon is more ‘cute and awkward’ than anything too explicit, explaining that they struck a balance as they wanted the film ‘to have this innocence but also reflect the world where you have access to all sorts of sexual imagery and pornography’.
Although Spermageddon now has distributors onboard from countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Taiwan and Thailand, Wirkola did reveal that there was one thing they were absolutely not allowed to show in their quest to be ‘very matter-of-fact’ with their topic.
‘The only note we got from our distributors was: ‘Don’t show any nipples.’ Which was… absurd.’
As well as including big musical numbers and having fun with sex, the movie’s creators are also ‘proud’ to include safe sex and pro-choice arguments.
The Hollywood Reporter’s review – which dubs the film ‘a gross-out comic spectacle’ – even observes that the film’s ‘open-minded politics, whether about teen sex or the benefits of birth control, likely would never pass muster in the U.S. but seem right at home in Scandinavia’.
We are also promised ‘musical sequences where hundreds of little sperm cells dance together in unison, like a Busby Berkeley number staged inside a condom’ – as you do.
At the time of publication, six reviews contribute to the film’s current perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating, where it has been described as ‘hilarious and unexpectedly heartwarming’ as well as ‘vulgar and insolent’ in all the right ways.
Spermageddon has yet to strike a deal with a British distributor, but worldwide sales negotiations are ongoing.
Spermageddon is set to release in Norway in January 2025, with a UK release date yet to be confirmed.
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